Are these compressed partitions? Sometimes those can cause problems.

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Introspection seems illogical
www.definc.com

A4 does not care about drives or partitions, it just uses windows' virtual memory. What does "System Information" tell about your free system resources and swap file when running the progam?

Jcl, This is what System Info tells me:

Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full OEM CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=E:\WIN98 /IZ /II /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 5.00.2614.3500
Uptime: 1:10:53:59
Normal mode
On "GENIE" as "Colony"

GenuineIntel x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3
511MB RAM
58% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive C (3383MB free)
Available space on drive C: 3383MB of 9764MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 8284MB of 9654MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive E: 16218MB of 19546MB (FAT32)

It also has a **lot** more to say, but I don't know if any of the other stuff is important.

- WildCat

ehehehehehhe
ehehehehehehe
ehehehehhehehe

quote:

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BMAP Test_frame,<tpanel.bmp>;
BMAP health_bar,<health.pcx>;

BMAP menu,<menu.pcx>;
BMAP background,<bkgrd.pcx>;
BMAP healthb,<healthb.bmp>;
BMAP increasb,<increasb.bmp>;
BMAP decreasb,<decreasb.bmp>;
BMAP 1b,<1b.bmp>;
BMAP 2b,<2b.bmp>;
BMAP 5b,<5b.bmp>;
BMAP 10b,<10b.bmp>;

VAR bparticles,<bpartic.pcx>;
VAR gparticles,<gpartic.pcx>;
VAR PART_SPOT;
VAR PLAYER_HEALTH = 100;

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Look,

quote:

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VAR bparticles,<bpartic.pcx>;
VAR gparticles,<gpartic.pcx>;

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You try to put a PCX file into a VAR
eheheheheheh
try change VAR to BMAP

Joshua

Bahha! I **slay** me!

Wow. There's a problem I'll never forget.

Joshua, thank you soooo much. I can't wait to try what you suggest tonight.

I'll let you all know how I make out.

- WildCat

Salve Ser

If the prolem is change VAR to BMAP, you need get a MISTMESH ERROR or a OVERFLOW ERROR and never an error (162) insufficient memory error.

Well, maybe, with this error, you found a little bug in A4 message table.

Joshua

Joshua,
Changing VAR to BMAP did nothing. In fact, I double checked, and you the bitmaps for Bparticl and Gparticl worked fine as defined that way.

I DID find out what the problem was though. I had saved all the BMP files as 16 color files instead of 256 colors.

JCL... Not that I will ***EVER*** make this mistake again, but is there any way you could change the error message on this issue from "Out of memory" to something a little more helpful, like wrong color depth or something?

Thanks!

-WildCat

Yes , I know, this topic is more than 1 month old,
but I have to agree on what WildCat said :
" JCL... is there any way you could change the error message
on this issue ... to something a little more helpful ".
I defined a Dataview on a Database on an EMPTY txt-file
and got : "error (162) : insufficient memory " !
- took me an hour to find out..
Capella

guys, if you have 512 or something mg ram and are runing a windows 98 you are trying to drive 300km/h with a bike. windows only manages 128 and no more. not even windows ME can help you with that.you will need an server OS like windows nt or windows 2000. other wise it will tell you what you have(sometimes not even that) but will never make you pc faster.

try changing your OS, or give everything the half or a fouth of the size. this should do it. its a lot of work but some day you will need to do it anyway.

hope to help

Cahetel

While it is true that Win98/ME doesn't address anything more than 128 MB, does not mean that no other program can...

Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Quake 3 (it's true!), can all address whatever system memory you have, regardless of the OS.

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